13 OKR examples for Test Manager
What are Test Manager OKRs?
The Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework is a simple goal-setting methodology that was introduced at Intel by Andy Grove in the 70s. It became popular after John Doerr introduced it to Google in the 90s, and it's now used by teams of all sizes to set and track ambitious goals at scale.
OKRs are quickly gaining popularity as a goal-setting framework. But, it's not always easy to know how to write your goals, especially if it's your first time using OKRs.
To aid you in setting your goals, we have compiled a collection of OKR examples customized for Test Manager. Take a look at the templates below for inspiration and guidance.
If you want to learn more about the framework, you can read more about the OKR meaning online.
Best practices for managing your Test Manager OKRs
Generally speaking, your objectives should be ambitious yet achievable, and your key results should be measurable and time-bound (using the SMART framework can be helpful). It is also recommended to list strategic initiatives under your key results, as it'll help you avoid the common mistake of listing projects in your KRs.
Here are a couple of best practices extracted from our OKR implementation guide 👇
Tip #1: Limit the number of key results
The #1 role of OKRs is to help you and your team focus on what really matters. Business-as-usual activities will still be happening, but you do not need to track your entire roadmap in the OKRs.
We recommend having 3-4 objectives, and 3-4 key results per objective. A platform like Tability can run audits on your data to help you identify the plans that have too many goals.
Tip #2: Commit to the weekly check-ins
Don't fall into the set-and-forget trap. It is important to adopt a weekly check-in process to get the full value of your OKRs and make your strategy agile – otherwise this is nothing more than a reporting exercise.
Being able to see trends for your key results will also keep yourself honest.
Tip #3: No more than 2 yellow statuses in a row
Yes, this is another tip for goal-tracking instead of goal-setting (but you'll get plenty of OKR examples below). But, once you have your goals defined, it will be your ability to keep the right sense of urgency that will make the difference.
As a rule of thumb, it's best to avoid having more than 2 yellow/at risk statuses in a row.
Make a call on the 3rd update. You should be either back on track, or off track. This sounds harsh but it's the best way to signal risks early enough to fix things.
Building your own Test Manager OKRs with AI
While we have some examples below, it's likely that you'll have specific scenarios that aren't covered here. There are 2 options available to you.
- Use our free OKRs generator
- Use Tability, a complete platform to set and track OKRs and initiatives
- including a GPT-4 powered goal generator
Best way to track your Test Manager OKRs
The rules of OKRs are simple. Quarterly OKRs should be tracked weekly, and yearly OKRs should be tracked monthly. Reviewing progress periodically has several advantages:
- It brings the goals back to the top of the mind
- It will highlight poorly set OKRs
- It will surface execution risks
- It improves transparency and accountability
Spreadsheets are enough to get started. Then, once you need to scale you can use a proper OKR platform to make things easier.
If you're not yet set on a tool, you can check out the 5 best OKR tracking templates guide to find the best way to monitor progress during the quarter.
Test Manager OKRs templates
We've covered most of the things that you need to know about setting good OKRs and tracking them effectively. It's now time to give you a series of templates that you can use for inspiration!
You'll find below a list of Objectives and Key Results templates for Test Manager. We also included strategic projects for each template to make it easier to understand the difference between key results and projects.
Hope you'll find this helpful!
OKRs to successfully launch and break-even via pre-sales
- Successfully launch and break-even via pre-sales
- Attain 100% of cost recovery through initial sales
- Track and control operational expenses efficiently
- Implement effective sales and marketing strategies
- Develop a competitive pricing strategy to cover production costs
- Generate a minimum of 300 pre-sale orders
- Collaborate with influencers to promote and pre-sell
- Implement a referral discount program for pre-orders
- Develop a compelling marketing campaign targeting potential customers
- Achieve 100% completion of product testing and fixes
- Execute testing plan and document all findings
- Develop a comprehensive plan for product testing
- Implement necessary fixes based on test results
OKRs to achieve unprecedented effectiveness and success in testing methods
- Achieve unprecedented effectiveness and success in testing methods
- Implement a testing system to improve accuracy by 30%
- Develop a testing process based on these inaccuracies
- Incorporate feedback loop to continually enhance the system
- Identify existing inaccuracies in the current system
- Conduct 2 training sessions weekly to enhance team members' testing skills
- Develop relevant testing skill modules for team training
- Send reminders and materials for scheduled sessions to team
- Organize weekly schedule to slot in two training sessions
- Minimize error percentage to below 5% via rigorous repeated testing initiatives
- Review and continuously improve testing methodologies
- Implement repetitive testing for all features
- Develop a comprehensive software testing protocol
OKRs to enhance the quality of the company's testing process
- Enhance the quality of the company's testing process
- Reduce the number of bugs found post-release by 30%
- Implement continuous training for the development team
- Develop rigorous pre-launch software testing protocols
- Enhance code review processes and quality checks
- Achieve 95% accuracy rate in every conducted testing
- Review and refine testing procedures and tools
- Implement comprehensive training on test protocol
- Conduct regular monitoring and performance evaluation
- Implement two new automated testing tools to streamline process
- Research and select two suitable automated testing tools
- Train the team on usage and integration of tools
- Purchase and install chosen automated testing tools
OKRs to accelerate process efficiency by achieving 80% test automation
- Accelerate process efficiency by achieving 80% test automation
- Develop and implement two new automation tools
- Research potential automation tools relevant to business needs
- Train team on tool usage and proceed with implementation
- Build and beta test two selected automation tools
- Increase current test automation coverage by 20%
- Develop and implement additional automation tests
- Monitor and evaluate progress regularly
- Identify areas where test automation is currently lacking
- Reduce manual testing time by 30%
- Train staff in efficient, effective testing strategies
- Implement automated testing tools for repeated tasks
- Prioritize test cases based on importance
OKRs to reduce the frequency of rollbacks following system releases
- Reduce the frequency of rollbacks following system releases
- Initiate feedback loop to understand and rectify 100% of rollback reasons each release
- Implement regular meetings to review and analyze rollback reasons
- Develop and execute improvement strategies to rectify rollback issues
- Identify and document all rollback reasons from the latest release
- Implement monitoring checks to catch 90% of release issues within first 48 hours
- Develop and implement automated system checks
- Establish quick and efficient incident response procedures
- Define key functionality areas for intense monitoring post release
- Decrease rollbacks by 20% through improving pre-release testing protocols
- Train team on advanced testing strategies
- Increase frequency of software testing cycles
- Implement strict pre-release testing protocols
OKRs to develop a cloud-based SAAS loyalty product
- Develop a cloud-based SAAS loyalty product
- Complete backend development process meeting 95% of the defined specifications
- Develop and test backend according to specifications
- Finalize defined specifications for backend development process
- Conduct reviews and adjust code to meet 95% specification accuracy
- Successfully launch a beta version with less than 3% defects reported
- Prioritize and swiftly address reported defects
- Develop comprehensive testing procedures for beta version
- Provide effective channels for reporting software defects
- Finalize system specifications and required features by interviewing 20 potential users
- Identify and contact 20 potential system users for interviews
- Conduct interviews to finalize system specifications
- Finalize required features based on user feedback
OKRs to improve conversion rate by 20% with landing page optimization and A/B testing
- Increase website conversion rate with page optimization and testing
- Create at least one new compelling CTA to test, resulting in 25% higher clicks
- Increase page clarity with simplified copy, resulting in 15% higher engagement
- Increase website traffic by 10% through targeted SEO and paid advertising
- Improve landing page load time by 10%
OKRs to successfully complete the GPU component
- Successfully complete the GPU component
- Reduce the number of performance issues found during testing by 50%
- Integrate automated testing in the development process
- Implement thorough code reviews before initiating tests
- Increase training sessions on effective coding practices
- Quality review passed in all 3 stages of the GPU component lifecycle
- Update GPU component lifecycle quality control procedures
- Discuss the successful review outcome with the team
- Document all observations during GPU component lifecycle stages
- Achieve 80% project milestone completions on GPU component development by the period end
- Assign experienced team for GPU component development
- Regularly track and review progress of project completion
- Prioritize daily tasks towards the project's milestones
OKRs to successfully launch a new B2B voice over IP platform
- Successfully launch a new B2B voice over IP platform
- Achieve 90% bug-free functionality through extensive pre-launch testing
- Continuously monitor and record test results
- Train dedicated team for debugging and error resolution
- Develop a comprehensive pre-launch testing protocol
- Drive user sign-ups with initial target of acquiring 500 new businesses
- Design promotional campaigns highlighting benefits of signing up
- Initiate strategic partnerships for user referrals
- Optimize website for seamless registration process
- Secure partnerships with at least three major B2B corporations for platform use
- Arrange and conduct meetings to pitch proposals
- Identify and research potential B2B corporate partners
- Develop and tailor partnership proposals
OKRs to ensure smooth migration of on-prem applications to cloud setup
- Ensure smooth migration of on-prem applications to cloud setup
- Ensure zero critical post-migration issues in the final month of the quarter
- Implement a rigorous software testing process post-migration
- Conduct daily briefs to discuss potential issues
- Schedule weekly system performance evaluations
- Finalize a comprehensive migration plan with defined roles and responsibilities by week 2
- Identify and assign roles and responsibilities to team members
- Create a comprehensive migration plan
- Review and finalize the migration plan by week 2
- Achieve successful migration of 70% of identified applications by week 8
- Identify critical applications for migration prioritization by week 2
- Achieve 70% migration of applications by the end of week 8
- Initiate migration process of identified applications by week 4
OKRs to integrate UX testing insights into decision-making
- Improve decision-making with UX testing insights
- Increase user satisfaction rating by 10%
- Train 3 non-UX team members on conducting and interpreting UX tests
- Implement changes based on user feedback in 100% of cases
- Conduct 10 user tests for at least 2 features
OKRs to achieve 100% test case updation across all modules
- Achieve 100% test case updation across all modules
- Accomplish complete updation and quality verification of all modules by quarter end
- Implement robust quality verification checks
- Schedule time weekly for updating each module
- Regularly track and report update progress
- Update 25% of test cases in each module by week 3
- Identify modules requiring test case updates
- Revise 25% of test cases per module weekly
- Prioritize and schedule updates for each module
- Conduct a mid-quarter review to check 50% completion
- Analyze data, confirm 50% objective completion
- Schedule and conduct a mid-quarter review meeting
- Compile all project updates and data for review
OKRs to increase inbound discovery calls through an evergreen funnel test
- Increase inbound discovery calls through an evergreen funnel test
- Improve the conversion rate of the funnel test by 15%
- Implement A/B testing for improved customer interaction
- Analyze current funnel performance and identify weak points
- Tailor content to target audience's needs and interests
- Attract 30% more organic traffic to the funnel landing page
- Regularly publish high-quality, keyword-rich content
- Implement and optimize SEO strategies on the landing page
- Promote the landing page through social media platforms
- Achieve a 20% increase in inbound discovery calls within the quarter
- Boost social media advertisements and engagement
- Develop and implement nuanced inbound marketing strategies
- Enhance SEO efforts for increased online visibility
More Test Manager OKR templates
We have more templates to help you draft your team goals and OKRs.
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OKRs resources
Here are a list of resources to help you adopt the Objectives and Key Results framework.
- To learn: Complete 2024 OKR cheat sheet
- Blog posts: ODT Blog
- Success metrics: KPIs examples